Gallery visit
02/10/09
The Bristish Museum
The Royal paintings of Jodpur
Garden and Cosmos
This exhibition has originated from western India. The focus is on a variety of religious beliefs, objects, images and decorative designs. For example, walls, carpets, bed spreads and palace walls were often decorated with floral designs. In some of the images nature and romance were intertwined, for example the leaves of the tree resembled that of a peacock and at the foot of the tree there is a woman resting.
In Indian culture it is believed that the universe is destroyed and then re-created periodically and in so perfect beings are created (Nah mahasiddhas).
Some images are show beings with ash-white skin, which represents re-incarnation. There are a variety of optical effects that are used to create rhythm across the page, for example, swirls. When there are images of weddings, wars or death, they are drawn in multiples to show a rapid succession of events.
Gold is a colour often used and in one picture gold is used for the entire background to represent the deities and also represent the unknowable absolute.
The way the work is illustrated is cartoon like and in some of the images the artist experiments with single point perspective. It was stated that “this suggests a knowledge of European artists conventions”.
The images though are not drawn in 3D but instead positioned in different areas across the page to again create the illusion that there is depth and space.
Yantras is the map of divine identity and different colours symbolise different things, for example pink yantra may have been designed to secure a military victory.
In some of the illustrations I found that the body is used as a map and it is believed that the essence of the universe is both everywhere and within everybody. It is believed that there is a supreme being other than the hindu gods.
The exhibition was interesting because it was not only educational regarding the history but also with the processes of drawing.
Gallery Visit- Jerwood Drawing Prize
Questions considered
1. Consider the range of medium, method, purpose and subject matter on display. Are there commonalities in the selection that has been made?
Purpose is to draw, illustrate, the majority use line.
Helen Newhouse- Acrylic on paper
Jenny Smith- Laser cut of circles
Lela Shield- Temporary
Annabelle Craven- Jones- Pen with foundation
Mark Jameson- Portrait of my sister
Simon Parish-Marker pen on paper, simple 4 colours with white
2. On what basis have works been classified as drawings? Is there any point for you, at which the exhibition stretches the category of “drawing” too far? If so, why?
Yuko Nasu- Imaginary Portrait- Oil. This piece is gestural
3. What are some of the different uses of line? Give examples from the exhibition.
To create shape, for example, Jenny Smith.
Frances Stacey- Bundeled shelter, collage. pen
Ekkehard Altengurger, tent, laser cut drawing. Looks like string and pins from afar.
Richard White, Ealm Wates-thread on paper (sewn on paper)
4. Coonsider the artists who use words (apart from the title). Why do you think they choose to include words in their drawing, and what is the impact.
Stephen Felmingham- Temple of the Subliminant- Charcoal
From afar looks like a photograph. Possibly
Pop life Exhibition
13/12/09
Tate Modern
Pop Life
In this exhibition there were a re a variety of new artists that I was able to come across and get some ideas from their work. These ideas will transfer into my Graphic arts and Illustration work. I will aim to be more creative and expressive in my work. Some of the artists include Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.
Jeff Koons did a piece called “Rabbit” in 1995. This was cast in stainless steel and is a contrast between the animal being something soft and the material that it is made from being something hard. The balloon animals can help to bring forward ideas on distortion as the image of the animal is not real and another represented image is shown even though there are no facial features etc.
He is known for playing with Kitsch and high art in the 198’s. He is a balloon artist who makes sculptures based on the balloon animals. The work is not directly made by Koons, he comes up with the ideas and they are produced by others.
Takashi Murakami is an artist who uses a lot of colourful weird images in his work. The images are interesting and simple to define even when there is a lot to take in. His work ranges in fine art, fashion and animation and it is apparent by some of the drawings that he does. The images that he creates are eye catching and the eyes is never bored. In 2005 he made a piece called “Superflat Museum (Convenience Store Edition). Another that I found interesting was Hiropon” 1997. This is the type of image that you have to look at twice in order to understand it fully. The sculpture is of a girl who looks like she is skipping while inflating her breasts, but it is actually milk that she is squirting out.
Andy Warhol’s “Joseph Beuys” image (1980) was very eye- catching with two of the prints on top of each other. This technique could possibly be incorporated into Graphic Arts, for example with Distortion and Disfigurement as my theme I could screen print a normal image twice to create the effect that the image is out of focus.
Damien Hirst’s “False Idol” image (2008), is good and experiments. This piece has a religious connotation to it because in the bible at one point the people mad a calf out of gold and was worshipping it, this is probably why Hirst has made the hooves gold. This gives me the idea to not only experiment, but start to add different connotations to my work.
Finally in the Pure Beauty Exhibition I Liked a series of images that in an unusual way I find to be different. “Portrait: Artists Identity Hidden with Various hats” (1974). In these images the hats are being held over the face by the person, but seems as if they are on the process of taking off a hat and not hiding.
Gallery Visit
01/10
V & A “Decode” Exhibition
This exhibition was very informative. It showed the ways in which technology has developed, what it is now being used for, also what it will be used for in the future. From the Decode exhibition I drew some points from it, which I can now put into practice in my own work. This enabled me to think about being more experimental with my own pieces. Decode showed data and 3D technology being presented as art.
Universal Everything
“Everyone Forever” 2006
“descended as digital sculpture’
Everywhere
Oasis
2008-9
This was an interactive piece as the sand was moved around on the screen, new life forms were able to breed.
“Fabrica”
Venetian Mirror
The presence of someone is recorded in slow motion.
Simon Heijdens
‘Tree”
2005
A tree was projected onto the wall and the leaves that had fallen from the tree, scattered on the ground. When movement is sensed near the leaves they move in whatever direction they are pushed.
Gallery Visit
02/10
Tate Modern
Van Doesburg
This exhibition showed a variety of Doesburg’s work over the years. The transitions, which he made in developing work through different periods and how his work made an impact on society and different movements which followed. There was not a large number of paintings of people, a few sculptures but the majority were geometric, very precise and strong bold colours were used.
There were a few pieces that I was interested in either because of the dimensions within the composition, use of colour or overall presentation.
Heroic Movement 1916
Doesburg was interested in the “Spiritual reality through abstract works” and also in the representation of fourth dimensions. He was involved in the international avant-garde and was influenced by many artists of the time including Kandinsky. I like this piece because it is simple and the colours are bold, even though abstract resembles a person.
“Cosmic Sun” 1915
Resembles the Turkish eye.
Dance 1 1917
Stained Glass
This piece shows precision
“Woman combing her hair” 1915
A carved image. The body is solid but the face is hollow. This is a combination of positive and negative.
“Composition XI, opus 18: Decomposition of the card players” 1917
In the piece it makes the viewers try to distinguish between the foreground and the background.
“Composition with red, Blue, Black, Yellow and Grey” 1921
Oil on canvas
I especially like this piece because it is so simple. The use of grey to create space and depth is very good.
“Design for poster” 1919
Pencil and gouache on paper
“The Eggboard” 1922
“Pure Plastic” 1922
“Geometric forms in Space” 1924
“Abeceda” 1926
Book
Interesting because typography and images has been combined.
“Victory over Sun” (series) 1923
The subjects in the images are made from abstract geometric forms.
Graphic Arts DV3200
Project performa Guidelines
Semester B 2010
Student Name: Shadia Chambers
Tutors Name: Lesley Rogue
Date: 20/01/10
In relation to the first semester of the Graphic Arts Modules in 2010, I now consider some of my strengths to be mono printing and different styles of drawing. I also believe that I am quite good at screen-printing, even though I have not done much of this. I have a good eye for detail and colour and would like to develop this further by also working with stencils. The project for Semester A was Distortion and Disfigurement. There was a lot of research but no particular final outcomes and because of this a development of my work has not been shown in it’s best light.
Therefore my project for Semester B will be a continuation of my Distortion and Disfigurement project with a range of prints, which will then be carried out. My ideas from the beginning about what I wanted to do regarding this project have changed. I will continue to collect information and begin to put actual pieces of work together as a finished product. My photoshop skills still need to be developed further and I will try to incorporate this into my work.
